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Re: Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade SOLVED



On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 06:22:48PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 08:09:14 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 09:23:48PM -0400, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > > I think I solved the problem. The files were missing, but also found.
> > > 
> > > This is what I found:
> > > 
> > > /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_spe/plugins/kiki ->
> > > /usr/share/pycentral/spe/site-packages/_spe/plugins/kiki ->
> > > ../../../../kiki/site-packages/kiki
> > > 
> > > However, there was no ../../../../kiki/site-packages/kiki. However, I
> > > did find the following:
> > > 
> > > /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/kiki/
> > > 
> > > so I setup 
> > > /usr/share/pycentral/spe/site-packages/_spe/plugins/kiki -> 
> > > /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/kiki/
> > > 
> > > (replaced the sym link to ../../../../kiki/site-packages/kiki with
> > > /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/kiki/)
> > > 
> > > The same was true for wxGlade, although it is called wxglade in
> > > python2.5.
> > > 
> > > After making those two sym links, dpkg --configure -a completed without
> > > any errors.
> > 
> > that sounds like it might be a packaging bug. BUt I would think others
> > would be reporting it as well. If you see anyone else ask about this,
> > then I'd say it warrants a bug report. 
> 
> I suspect that the problem may have been caused by using python 2.3 to
> perform the setup of python 2.5. Even Etch has python 2.4 as the default
> version already. Mark, do you know why your system defaulted to python
> 2.3? Has it been a really long time (years) since the previous upgrade?

he's been, so far as I can tell, using apt-get upgrade. Mightn't that
cause him to stay on 2.3? 

A

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